{"id":9739,"date":"2011-05-20T17:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2011-05-20T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T22:25:11","slug":"an-end-of-week-quick-note-on-pocket-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/an-end-of-week-quick-note-on-pocket-pistols\/9739\/","title":{"rendered":"An End of Week Quick Note on Pocket Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Funky Little Monster<\/p><\/div>\n

I picked up a really cool Sig Sauer P238 yesterday, the Diamond Plate<\/a> version. Funky little monster, to be sure. As I’ve mentioned before, my pocket carry gun for years and years was a Colt Mustang<\/a> redone by the now-defunct Scott, McDougal & Associates<\/a>. It’s still one of the best .380s ever made (although Marshal Halloway swears by the P238 and is a big reason I got this one). BIG CAVEAT HERE!<\/strong> Both the Mustang and the P238 are single-action semi autos. If you carry either gun cocked and locked in your pocket (as I did), you MUST<\/strong> have a sturdy pocket holster that covers the trigger! Sig provides a really nifty belt holster<\/a> with the P238, so you’ve got options.<\/p>\n

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Here's Jeff's picture of the Colt Mustang<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Brother Jeff Quinn from GunBlast.com<\/a>, Colt will be introducing the Ultralite version of the Mustang pretty soon. Marshal thinks we’ll have one for testing in June.<\/p>\n

BTW, here’s Jeff’s review<\/a> of the P238. Here’s the P238 review from The Firearm Blog<\/a>. My understanding is that the Colt 7-round magazines will fit the Sig, and vice versa. I’ll check it out this weekend. I would like to point out that the P238 as it comes out of the box has lots of sharp edges…so did the Mustang until SM&A ground them off. If I was going to keep the gun, it would need to be dehorned. One thing I appreciate with the Ruger LCP, my every day all the time in-my-pants pistol, is that it’s pretty smooth out of the box.<\/p>\n

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Cross Draw Holster from Pocket Concealment Systems<\/p><\/div>\n

BTW, one of my favorite holsters for the Mustang was this one from Pocket Concealment Systems<\/a>, a cross draw that easily tucks under a sweater. It is I believe based on a Lou Alessi design, and he called it his “sweater holster”. I also like their Blackbird front pocket holster for jeans, and it works well for cocked and locked carry. I’m always experimenting with pocket holsters. As you know, I favor the DeSantis Nemesis for the Ruger LPC (and various and sundry J-frames, but I don’t like the soft Nemesis for a cocked and locked pistol. My favorite pocket holster, for the little NAA .32, was a “Pocket Natural” made by Jerry Ahern<\/a> about a thousand years ago.<\/p>\n

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Pocket Natural made by Jerry Ahern<\/p><\/div>\n

BTW-cubed, here’s an article<\/a> I wrote back in 2007 that says exactly the same things I say today, proving perhaps that I am ultimately boring<\/em><\/strong>. Finally, you can find all the information in the world on little pistolas<\/em> at mouseguns.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up a really cool Sig Sauer P238 yesterday, the Diamond Plate version. Funky little monster, to be sure. As I’ve mentioned before, my pocket carry gun for years and years was a Colt Mustang redone by the now-defunct Scott, McDougal & Associates. It’s still one of the best .380s ever made (although Marshal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167,1],"tags":[1713,1712],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dropped-shot","category-featured","tag-colt-mustang","tag-sig-p238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}